on 03-10-2015 12:15 PM
This is a thread with no particular
Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂
So if anyone out there has something
To say about anything you like now
Is your chance
Keep it clean
And be nice
See how long that lasts
Can we keep politics and religion out
Of the conversation
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on 11-10-2018 08:25 PM
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on 11-10-2018 09:04 PM
Wing bird had her wing splinted when she was younger...
When her wing's folded down against her body, the upper part sits flat, but the long feathers at the end stick up like sail... ha ha.
Thus... Wing bird....
It doesn't give her any difficulty, and the other birds don't mind....
Especially her many admirers, ha ha.
The flock is made up, predominantly, of young males, so she's never short of attention, ha ha.
She's decided that she likes my idea - I put the food down for her, and then I go away...
"What a nice man... He's so considerate of my needs - He leaves the food, and then leaves, himself...", ha ha.
I'd like to be out on the street at the right time, one evening, to watch the wrens crossing..
I'd call it a "bucket list" item, but every time I say "bucket list" to myself all I can think of is the wide variety of colours available in 9 litre buckets, at Bunnings... ha ha.
I can see myself, like some kind of train spotter, counting the number of red buckets, and orange buckets, and "Be still my beating heart! A Blue bucket!", ha ha.
That's not how you go about making a bucket list, is it? Oh well, no worries... ha ha.
I can see a sweeping chicken wire arch over the road, a spacious tube so the wrens can cross in safety, inside it...
And I bet they'd climb on it and hop over the top of it, too... ha ha.
The old man bird turned up...
He's growing a crest feather...
The whole time I've known him he's been bald in that department, so we've learnt to get along with him puffing up his head feathers when he wants to express himself...
Now there's a half length yellow feather that pops up at the appropriate moment...
It's a very strange sight... ha ha.
His eye's alright, he's alright, things are alright... ha ha.
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on 11-10-2018 09:31 PM
The hose that used to connect the hose reel to the tap came from somebody's rubbish pile...
What's wrong with that? I'm "recycling", ha ha...
Yeah... No.... Second hand hose is never a great idea...
True, it lasted a good several years, but when I moved the hose reel, it split...
Time, it seems, to get a new bit of hose...
And new, new hose, too... Look out, the last of the big spenders is on the prowl! ha ha.
Yep... When I saw that reel of hose in the supermarket for $12 I knew I was onto a winner...
Two weeks later, my hopes were crushed...
There was no $12 hose.... What was I going to do?
I pulled up my big boy britches and took the next best thing on offer... ha ha.
The $10 hose...
Now, I've measured out the length I need, and attached the fittings, and all is good...
But what am I going to do with the rest of this hose?
I really don't know if there's enough length to link up all the bird's water dishes, hook it up to the tap, turn it on and let nature take it's course... ha ha.
I'm not flooding the garden, I'm "intensively watering it", ha ha.
Or I could shelve the idea as one of those which I've had that really shouldn't be followed through, ha ha.
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on 11-10-2018 10:28 PM
Old hoses come in very useful at times.
When my parents moved in 1967 Dad took one of the old hoses with the intention of cutting it up to connect his hose reels to the taps.
Three years later when I moved there was enough of the old hose left for me to do the same.
A few weeks ago my OH was very annoyed when he tried to reconnect the hose reel to the tap and it kept splitting.....he kept saying that hoses do not last. He was a bit shocked when I pointed out that the piece of hose had lasted 48 years and it was old before it was used on my hose reel. I will miss my pretty yellow rubber hose...it has been like an old friend connecting me to my childhood home.
on 12-10-2018 02:37 PM
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on 12-10-2018 02:40 PM
Having chopped the quite soft banana very finely, I then took to it with the potato masher...
Now that's a pretty mushy banana... ha ha.
But how am I going to get the sticky paste-like blob off the plate?
I know... I'll use a piece of bread as a scraper... What a brilliant idea... ha ha.
I duly took the banana out and scraped it off the plate...
The currawong watched all this with amusement and when I'd finished it hopped onto the table...
"Bread soaked in banana! Just what I've always wanted!" ha ha.
If nothing else, I've made somebody's day, ha ha.
New toy teething, or is it beaking, troubles... ha ha.
Okay, you took a short piece of rope and then tied it to the bridge, above...
Good, but the cord you used is too short, and I can't pull the piece of rope up and play with it...
This is a little frustrating, said the currawong...
Have you thought of taking the rope down, retying it around the bridge, then fastening it in place with the cord so that there's the two ends of the rope easily accessible to a bird on the bridge...?
It would make a it a much funner toy... ha ha.
Who said I had nothing amusing to do this afternoon? ha ha.
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on 12-10-2018 02:52 PM
Somewhere, I've got a memory box frame but I can't remember where I put it.... ha ha.
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on 12-10-2018 05:42 PM
on 12-10-2018 06:25 PM
I am glad my OH is not the only person who cannt find things when he puts them down.
I told him to put the eggs near the stove so I could hard boil some.....I finally found them near the fridge but he did not remember putting them there.![]()
on 12-10-2018 07:03 PM